Chrome-Stats extension
Compare Chrome extensions: enhanced-h264ify vs h264ify
| Stats | 
enhanced-h264ify
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h264ify
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|---|---|---|
| User count | 70,000+ | 1,000,000+ |
| Average rating | 4.83 | 4.56 |
| Rating count | 134 | 1,119 |
| Last updated | 2019-06-03 | 2019-09-09 |
| Size | 17.60K | 30.72K |
| Version | 2.1.0 | 1.1.0 |
| Short description | |
|---|---|
| Choose what video codec YouTube should play for you | Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos |
| Full summary | |
enhanced-h264ify is a fork of well-known h264ify extension for Firefox/Chrome which blocks VP8/VP9 codecs on YouTube, so that you can use H264 only. This may be useful because there are lots of devices on the market which support H264 hardware decoding and do not support VP8/VP9. This extension has new features such as manual blocking of H264, VP8, VP9, AV1 codecs and 60fps video. By default it blocks everything but H264 and 60fps video. It works only on YouTube. GitHub: https://github.com/alextrv/enhanced-h264ify |
Try h264ify if YouTube videos stutter, take up too much CPU, eat battery life, or make your laptop hot. By default, YouTube streams VP8/VP9 encoded video. However, this can cause problems with less powerful machines because VP8/VP9 is not typically hardware accelerated. In contrast, H.264 is commonly hardware accelerated by GPUs, which usually means smoother video playback and reduced CPU usage. h264ify makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos. |